Programme

Category «A»

  • Preliminary round (for more detailed information go to the article "Conditions of Participation")
    • 1. Caprice
    • 2. One virtuoso piece of candidate's choice
  • First round
    • 1. One caprice of cadidate's choice from Rode, Dont, Gavinies, Wieniawski
    • 2. One of the following:
      • Telemann Fantasy
      • Bach. Partita №1 for violin solo (two movements of candidate's choice)
      • Bach. Partita №2 for violin solo (two movements of candidate's choice excluding Chaconne)
      • Bach. Partita №3 for violin solo (two movements of candidate's choice)
    • 3. Virtuoso piece of candidate's choice
  • Final
    • First or second and third movements from one of the following violin concerto (candidate's choice)
      • Spohr, Wieniawski, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Vieuxtemps

Category «B»

  • Preliminary round (for more detailed information go to the article "Conditions of Participation")
    • 1. One caprice of cadidate's choice from Paganini or Wieniawski
    • 2. One of the following:
      • Bach. Sonata №№1 - 3 for violin solo (candidate's choice) 3-rd and 4-th movements
      • Bach. Partita №№1 -2 for violin solo (candidate's choice) any two movements excluding Chaconne
      • Bach. Partita №3 for violin solo (Prelude, Lourre and Gavotte or Menuet, Bourree and Giga)
  • First round
    • 1. One caprice of cadidate's choice from Paganini op.1 or Wieniawski op.10,18
    • 2. One of the following:
      • Bach. Sonata №№1 - 3 for violin solo (candidate's choice) 3-rd and 4-th movements
      • Bach. Partita №1 for violin solo (Allemande, Double, Courante, Double or Sarabande, Double, Bourree, Double)
      • Bach. Partita №2 for violin solo (any two movements excluding Chaconne)
      • Bach. Partita №3 for violin solo (Prelude, Lourre and Gavotte or Menuet, Bourree and Giga)
    • 3. Virtuoso piece of candidate's choice
  • Final
    • One complete violin concerto from:
      • Bruch, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens, Lalo, Vieuxtemps №5, Khachaturian, Prokofiev №1, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius.

Category «C»

  • Preliminary round (for more detailed information go to the article "Conditions of Participation")
    • 1. One caprice of candidate's choice from Paganini op.1
    • 2. One of the following:
      • Bach. Sonata №№1 - 3 for violin solo (candidate's choice) 1-st and 2-nd movements
      • Bach. Partita №2 for violin solo (Chaconne)
  • First round
    • 1. Two caprices of candidate's choice from Paganini op.1
    • 2. One of the following:
      • Bach. Sonata №№1 - 3 for violin solo (candidate's choice) 1-st and 2-nd movements
      • Bach. Partita №2 for violin solo (Chaconne)
    • 3. Mozart. 1-st movement from violin concerto №3 G-dur, KV 216 (cadenza by D.Oistrakh)
  • Second round
    • 1. One complete sonata for violin and piano of candidate's choice from:
      • Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Grieg, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke
    • 2. Candidate's own choice of a contemporary (starting from 2nd half of XX c.) piece for violin solo
    • 3. Virtuoso piece of candidate's choice
  • Final
    • One complete violin concerto from:
      • Brahms, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Prokofiev №1, Shostakovich №1, Khachaturyan (cadenza by D.Oistrakh), Paganini №1.